Re: font name not decoded in the output of describe-font

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> > I haven't found a specification that says so myself, but Aidan Kehoe
> > says it's clear from the source of fontconfig that it's UTF-8.  I
> > can't imagine why that would change in the future so it's probably
> > safe to assume it (at least for user presentation purposes).

> Anyway, since in practice everything uses utf-8, surely it's better to
> assume that until a better solution is found, than returning raw
> undecoded font names ?

Ok, I've just installed a code to decode/encode font names
property for x, xft, ftx font-backends.

The decoder checks the validity of utf-8 sequence.

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Kenichi Handa
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